Moving from powertap to.... which meter then?

fat bloke

So, after 3 years of sharing a powertap with the wife - great piece of kit, fantastic training and motivational tool - she fancies changing to something else and getting her own meter.

I suppose for less than 1000 euro, the contenders are - Stages, garmin vector 2s and power2max yeah? -Am I missing anything out?

She wants something that is interchangeable bike to bike, but only very occasionally. Say on to the winter bike for winter training, and then onto the race bike for racing once the season starts again.

The vector 2s seems like the job to me, I've a mate who's using the 1s and really likes it and it hasn't given him any grief. But the prices have shot up. The 2 pedal system was 1200 when it came out wasn't it? Now it's over 1600, due to sterling prices according to the shops. That's out of budget, regardless of 1 or 2 leg measurement, and though I'm familiar with the arguments either side, single side measurement is ok with me.

The 2s is almost 1000 euro in cyclesuperstore - which makes the stages quite attractive but her race bike is sram red and her training bike is shimano so maybe that creates a compatibility problem.

Am I missing anything else out? Has anyone else got non-prototype skin in the game?

comete

Has that 4iii one been released yet?

comete

According to their website, orders are shipped within 2 working days, must be available to order...?

If not, power2max are good, but stages definitely more attractive for the ease of swapping between bikes....just slap a shimano chainset on her race bike instead of sram. You can't get a sram red stages meter anyway, only rival is available which will fit with a red chainset.

iwillhtfu

This site seems to have good prices

http://www.powermeter24.com/en/products/garmin

fat bloke

I see D rainmaker saying back in september 14 that he reckoned we were in a bit of a pricing bubble and on the cusp of the imminent availabilty of higher quality meters for lower prices, but the exchange rates have kind of fcuked all that up for the moment. The dollar is too strong and sterling is too strong.

So does that make this the worst time to buy a new meter - still in a sort of development stage, and inflated prices? I thought that when the garmind came out first at 1200 "nice one, a few years now and they'll be under a grand" but the opposite is the case.

Beasty

Now using the power2max on one of the track bikes and would put it way ahead of the 2 pedal based systems (although I only have experience of the Vector it would appear based on comments I've seen here that Stages have more issues)

There's also some decent prices now available for the Quarq although I've only had experience of the pricier models (and that experience has been very good - have them on 3 bikes (I think!!))

TGD

comete wrote: »

According to their website, orders are shipped within 2 working days, must be available to order...?

If not, power2max are good, but stages definitely more attractive for the ease of swapping between bikes....just slap a shimano chainset on her race bike instead of sram. You can't get a sram red stages meter anyway, only rival is available which will fit with a red chainset.

Their website is wrong, and this was confirmed to me by one of their own people whom I contacted via their Facebook as I was confused. They are only doing 'factory' ones yet - you send them your crank and they fit it. If they fully release the DIY one it should blow away a lot of the opposition. How long that will take I dunno

Zippe

Power2max I'd be saying, it gives the total of both legs, also gives L/R but if you pull up with left foot it counts as pushing with right so not great for that, that said the stages might be handy to swap from bike to bike but I think one leg power is not the way to go, if you get a wattbike test done by a coach to work out your zones, then you train with a one leg pm, if the leg the pm in fitted to is stronger than the other leg you will not be pushing yourself hard enough or maybe too hard, I have power2max with rotor cranks fitted on 3 bikes an no probs yet, one if the p2m's is 2 years old and still working perfect, the P2M is good value too, power-tap have new toys now too could be worth looking at,

Cheers Zip,